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I routinely - usually, even - work on remote servers by sshing to svr1, then from there to svr2, then from there to svr3, and finally from there to svr4. The situation stems from having to penetrate the firewalls of two enterprises, so, for example, svr2 is not even visible to my linux workstation, it's only visible from svr1.

Since the fish protocol is accomplished using shell commands available on the remote (sshd) system, fish should theoretically allow me to manipulate the objects on svr4 via the fish "client" on my local linux machine using the intermediate sshd processes as elements of a pipeline, if only there were a grammar for the situation - in other words, if only Konqueror had a way to allow the user to hop from one sshd to another one.

Is this, in fact, possible?

I suspect that this would be done by extending the fish protocol itself by adding 'ssh' to the list of remote shell commands that fish calls upon to do its work. I have been unable yet to find out who is maintaining the protocol and a KDE implementation. At the very least it would be interesting to see what the list of remote shell commands IS.

I went to look at KDE4. I didn't find anything quickly on the subject of kioslave-within-kioslave, but I'm happy to hear what you reported.

I'll continue digging, because this is something I'm anxious to read about and, hopefully, use someday.